Racial profiling on campus: debate reignited

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed. The debate over racial profiling – already a hot topic on many US college campuses – gained renewed attention this weekend when Yale University police briefly detained a black male student. Black students and faculty members at many campuses charge that racial profiling is a fact of life for them, but this student’s experience immediately attracted wide attention. His father is a New York Times columnist who has written about racial profiling and whose Twitter feed attracts many eyeballs. More...